#ruby records

via Diary Of An Adman

submitted by @bacon_greg_and_cheese

Fire of Love was The Gun Club’s debut record and it is considered one of the most influential releases of the post-punk era, blending punk, garage and roots rock plus a dash of general freakout weirdness equaling punk blues. As a recent article in Pitchfork states, Fire of Love “set the stage for outlaw eccentrics like the Pixies, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and the White Stripes (while providing Nick Cave with his post-Birthday Party roadmap into the swamp).” The punks in Gun Club (Rob Ritter and Terry Graham both were in The Bags) even recorded a cover of an old Robert Johnson song, “Preaching the Blues” (originally titled “Preachin’ Blues,” 1939), something unheard of in the scene at the time. The whole album is amazing, but my top tracks are “Sex Beat,” “For the Love of Ivy,” “Ghost on the Highway” and “Jack on Fire.”

Bad Bad Whiskey - Sammy Soulo (Baby Baby / Bad Bad Whiskey, 1967)

via Chris Desjardins:  "I wish I still had a copy of the original poster. When I took this photo, I was standing on the monument to some famous movie star (whose name, unhappily, I have forgotten) at what is now known as Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I wish I still had the negatives to that afternoon's shoot. There were one or two other photos taken at different grave sites on the cemetery's sprawling grounds which ended up being used as promo stills. But the majority were never printed and got lost in the shuffle of the late-1980s alcohol/drug-fueled 'I-Live-for-Rock' lifestyle. There were a LOT of other good ones. P.S. I had Judith Bell do the voodoo/hoodoo drawings that adorn the borders of the poster."

Lydia Lunch/13.13 | 13.13 | Ruby Records (black, /?)